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VOL. 58.
A Country Sohool,
Pretty and pale and tired
she sits In her stiff-backed chair,
While the blazing summer sun
Shines In on her soft brown hair,
And the little brook without,
That she hears through the open door.
Mocks with its mumnrcool
Hard bench and dusty floor.
It seems an endless round-
Grammar and A. B. C;
The blackboard and the sums;
The stupid geography;
When from teacher to Lttlo Jim
Not one of them cares a straw.
Whether "John" Is any "case,"
Or Kansas in Omaha.
For Jimmy's bare brown feet
Are aching to watte in the stream,
Where the trout to his luring bait
Shall leap with a quick, bright gleam :
And his teacher's blue eyes stray-
To the flowers on the desk hard by,
'Till her thoughts have followed Iter eyes
With a half unconscious sigh—
Her heart outruns the clock,
As she smells their faint sweet scent;
But w hen have time ana heart
Their measure in unison blent?
For time will haste or lag.
I ike your shadow on the grass,
That lingers far behind,
Or flies when you fain would pass.
Have patience, restless Jim,
The stream and fish will wait;
And patience, tired bine eyes-
Down the winding road by the gate.
Under the willow shade.
Stands someone with fresher flowers;
So turn to your books again.
And keep love for the after hours.
Unmade Hay.
We knew by the clouds to the eastward
It was going to rain that day.
And there was the whole of the meadow lot
All spread with the fragrant hay.
And the clouds grew darker and larger
As the wind the tree-tops tossed,
And, hard though I was worying.
It seemed that the hay was lost.
Mv farn. was a small and poor one.
And the hay crop was alt 1 had.
And 1 cottld not afford to hire a man,
For the times were dull and bad,
And matters were looking dreary
For me that Summer day,
When I heard a sweet voice behind me:
"I will help you get iu the hay!
'Twas my neighbor's daughter, Molly,
Who lived just across the road.
And soft was the light in her down-cast eyes
And the blush on Iter cheek that glowed".
I gladly accepted the service
she offered in friendly way.
And there by my side that afternoon
- She helped me gather the hay.
%
She was no fine lady feeble.
Though her arms were pitimp and white.
And she raked ail day with me, row for row
Till the fall of the Summer night.
And then, when we ceased our labors,
And the hay was stored aws.y.
From the depth of my heart I thanked her
For her kindness to me that day.
And I took her home to her cottage.
But I didn't pause to woo,
And 1 asked not her hand in marriage,
Which I knew she thought I'd do.
I left her there at the gate-way,
Beneath the branches brown.
And from her looks 1 know she was
Tiie maddest girl iu town.
THE DRY MAN.
"Glorious country !" cried Frank
Seagrave, as the outward bound steam
er for Brazil glided into the smooth es
tulay of the Tagus, and on either side
of her arose the green, sunny hills and
waving woods of beautiful Portugal.
"And glorious weather, too," added
Harry Fitzgerald. "Englishman though
I am, I'm not as patriotic as Marry
at's sailor,who getting back to England
in the thick of a Channel fog after a
twelve months' cruise in the Mediter
ranean, growled approvingly, Ah ! this
is what I calls weather ! None o' yer
lubberly blu6 skies here !"
"Yes, I think the poor Bay of Bis
cay's been sadly maligned," said his
cousin Jack. "We've been right a
cross it from side to side, and yet
"Not a spray
All the day
In the Bay of Biscay, O !"
"We've been mighty lucky so far,
sure enough," put in Cicil Vane, "and
the ouly thiug wauting's a few young
ladies."
"Well, if that's your complaint, Mr.
Vane," said the captain's deep voice
from behind, "you'll soon be cured, for
we're are just going to take aboard as
nice a girl as you ever set .eyes OIL
She's au old friend of mine, too ; the
daughter of an old chum, Fred Forres
ter, who's coffee-growing in Brazil now,
and she's going to him from Lisbon.
There'll be a pretty stir among you
young fellows wheu Miss Lucy comes.
I shouldu't wonder if she even put Mr.
Clitheroe out of his course just a little
bit."
At this there was a general laugh,for
Winthrop Clitheroe,the only American
among the jovial party of five address -
ed by Captain Barclay, had already,
young as he was, seen and done so
much that to surprise or startle him ap
peared simply impossible. In any real
danger be was the boldest of the bold ;
but the moment it was ovsr he relapsed
into cool, "don't-care-a-cent" compos
ure which had already earned him the
nickname of "the dry man."
Miss Forrester proved quite as
charming as the captain had said, and
the effect of her presence was soon ap
parent.
Jack Fitzgerald, hitherto as careless
of his dress as any Cossack, suddenly
bloomed into an amazing dandy. His
cousin Harry, whose first appearance
was usually after the second breakfast
bell, took to getting up surprisingly
early, and pacing the deck like a senti
nel till Lucy's pretty face was seen ris
ing through the companion way.
Frank Seagrave took to getting up
appropriate scraps of poetry on the sly
and bringing them in on all occasions,
sometimes mixing them up in a very
striking fashion ; while Cecil Vane
who had somehow mistaken himself for
MILHEIM, PA. THURSDAY, JULY 17., 1884.
an artist, plumed himself upon his
cleverness in cutting out; the rest by
getting leave to take M\as Forrester's
portrait, till, just as he was about to
present it to the charming original, 1 e
discovered with rage and despair that
while his back was turned for a mo
ment,wicked Jack had sketched a short
pipe between her cherry lips, pouring
out a volume of smoke worthy of Vesu
vius.
But although the captain's prophecy
was correct thus far,he seemed quiet ;d
fault as to Clitlieroe. The "dry man"
went on his own dry way just as usual,
seeming to trouble himself very little
about Lucy or her admirers. True, lie
appeared to le always on baud when a
seat was to be placed for her, a shawl
arranged, or a book fetched from the
saloon ; but be rarely stayed to be
thanked, and had seemingly much less
taste for her society than for that of
the sailois, with whom lie was im
mensely popular.
So matters stood when one morning
Clitlieroe,to escape the "deck washing"
which was cleaning ofl! the grime of
the coals taken in at the Cape Verd is
land, climbed up into the foretop, and,
stretching himself at full length began
to read, a move not lost upon his four
comrades below.
"Good chance to make our "dry
man" a wet man—eh,boys V" whisper
ed Jack Fitzgerald, glancing at the rig
ging, and then at the hose-pipe, which
the sailors had left laying on the deck.
"Bight you are," grunted Seagrave,
who was rather cross that morning,
having found Lucy and Clitlieroe in
such close conversation when he came
cn deck, that he passed almost unnotic
ed—"there, you hold the pipe, and I'll
pump."
But this mischievous design, like
most other designs of the sort, recoiled
upon their own heads. The jet of wa
ter, striking against the planking of
the foretop, fell back upou them in a
perfect deluge, while the few drops
that did pa.is between the timbers was
ted themselves on the thick plaid upon
which Clitlieroe was lying.
"I say, this won't do, you know,"
growled Jack, shaking himself like a
water-dog. "Hold hard for half a
minute, while I go aloft with the
hose. "
Up the rope ladder he climbed like a
cat, with the nozzle of the pipe over
his arm. But the wary American was
not to be caught so easily.
Just as Fitzgerald came within arm's
length of him, and gave the signal to
io pump, Clitheroe suddenly stretched
his arm over the edge of the "top,"
and seizing the pipe, turned it back
right upon Jack himself, who was in
stantly drenched to the skin, and so
staggered that he all but tumbled
down head foremost, while his discom
fiture was greeted with a hearty burst
of laughter from the crew, the captain,
and, worse still, Miss Forrester her
self.
But, as if to blot out the memory of
his mishap, the four cavaliers became
more attentive than ever ; and Luiy,
soroly puzzled what to do with them,
asked the advice of her friend, the cap
tain.
"Well, my dear," said the old sailor
"if you want to know which of them
likes you the best, that's easily settled.
We'll anchor off Pernarabuco to-mor
row, and it's smooth water inside the
reef, and no sharks about; just you
manage to fall overboard somehow,and
see who'll jump after you."
The idea delighted Lucy, who was
perfectly fearless,and could swim like a
Fijian.
Scarcely had they been anchored an
hour, when a loud scre.iui startled ev
ery one, and Lucy was seen falling
from the binnacle into the sea. Her
four courtiers instantly plunged after
her ; but Clitheioe (who had seen too
many real accidents to be deceived by
Lucy's acting, clever as it was), guess -
ed at once what was intended, and
watched the progress of the sceue with
quiet amusement.
It was lucky for poor Lucy that a
boat was so promptly launched to pick
her up,for her four champions, in their
eagerness to save her, seemed much
more likely to drown her instead.
But none the less was the experiment
a failure, and the puzzle as great as ev
er.
"Oh, dear 1" whispered she to her
counselor, "it's no good attnr all, for
they all jumped together ! Which am
I to prefer ?"
"Which ?" echoed the captain, look
ing with a broad grin from the drip
ping heroes to the imperturbable Clith
eroe—which ? Why the dry one, of
course !"
And so she did.
A Western piper announced a rail
road collision recently with tTie head
ing, "Boiler Empty and Engineer full.'
A Negro 'vigilance committee' of
Richmond, Mo., ducked and thrashed a
black man who had beaten his wife.
A PAPER F()rf*nlE HOME CIRCLE
rial sus,
First almanac printed in 14G0.
Envelopes were first used in 1839.
The first steel pen was made in 1830.
The first air pump was made in Ifr>4.
Whalebone is worth ;$12,2>0 per ton.
The first lucifer match was made in
1798.
The first horse railroad was built iu
1626.'
Gold was discovered in California in
184 S.
The first iron steamship was built in
1030.
The first balloon ascent was made in
1798.;
Coaches were first used m England
iu 1559.
Minnesota has 7000 lakes within its
borders.
There are now 155 women students
in the Boston University.
Fifty-seven American women writ
ers were born iu Maine.
Switzerland hotel keepers haye a
mutual protection society.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart is 84 years old.
She is the richest widow in the world.
In Boston there are 20,000 working
women whoso wages average ouly $4 to
a week.
The United States has become the
fourth largest beer drinking nation in
the world.
A well which throws up a gas ilame
four feet high has been struck near Los
Angeles, Cal.
The North Carolina State Exposition
will bo held in ltaleigh from October 1
to October 2S.
The catch of Penobscot River salmon
has beeu very light this spring, and the
tish run small.
Decatur County, la., has a girl who
captured and sold fifteen wolves during
the last season.
Some one has iaken the troubla to fi
gure out that Americau hens lay 9,040,-
000,000 eggs a year.
ft i 3 rumored that for the next few
yeais very few expensive houses will be
built by ricli men.
A monument is proposed at Kings
ton, N. Y., to Lieut. Chipp, who lost
his life in the Arctic regions.
Mr. Corcoran, the Washington bank
er, is said to glory in the fact that his
father was a cobbler.
Four little girls under thirteen years
of age turn out about I*ooo paper tor
pedoes in a day in Boston.
The largest county in the United
States is Custer county, Jfontaua, with
an area of 30,000 square miles.
The erection of a nail factory to con
tain one hundred nail mac]lines is con
templated near Portland, Oregon.
An organization has been formed in
North Carolina for a homo for disabled
Confederate soldiers of that state.
In San Francisco all the day district
telegraph work is done by women.
Titey are paid from 840 to SGO a month.
It is estimated that the money annu
ally spent in this country for drink
would take care of 5,000,000 orphans.
The total number of separate farms
in the Uni'ed States is 4,000,000, and
their aggregate value is $19,000,000,000
Speaking o! gluttony, a medical writ
er quotes the old saying that "Many
people dig their graves with their teeth.
A big whale captured by a New Lon
don vessel brought in the following re
turns: From whalebone $12,230, oil
$3,490, total $15,720.
"Red Leary," the burglar, who is
serving a fifteen year's term in State
prison, has just had $50,000 left him by
an aunt in England.
The Republicans of Maine nave num.
inated all their present Representatives
in.Congress for re-election.
Holding the Umbrella.
Mrs. Blank—Here is a funny item
which says that a married man can be
distinguished by the way in which be
carries an umbrella over bis wife, care
fully shielding himself and leaving hei
exposed to the drippings.
Mr. Blank—lt is not true, though.
Mrs. B—No it is not. You never dc
it. You were a great deal more awk
ward at carrying an umbrella over me
before we were married than you have
been since.
MY. B-Ali !
Mrs. B—Yes ; I had several bonnets
and two dresses ruined by the drippings
in those days. But you have become
ever so much more careful.
Mr. B—Yes, indeed. I liLive to pay
for your things myself now.
Short Talks With the Boys.
A Little Advice about Carelessness
in General and Taking Care of
Things in Particular.
BY M. QUAD.
"Where's my hat ?"
"Who's seen my knife V'
"Who turned mv coat wrong Fide
out and slung it under the lounge V
There you go, my boy ! When you
came into the house last evening you
Hung your hat across the room, jump
ed out of your shoes and kicked 'em
right and left, wriggled out of youi
coat and gave it a toss, and now you
are annoyed because each article hasn't
gathered itself into a eliairto be ready
for you when you dress in the morn
ing. Who cut those shoestrings ?
You did to save one minutes' time in
untying them ! Your knife is under
the bed,where it rolled when you hop
ped, skipped and jumped out of your
pants. Your collar is down below the
bureau, one of your socks on the foot
of the bed, and your vest may bo iu
the kitchen wood-box for all I know.
Now,then,my way has always been
the easiest way. I had rather fling my
hat down than to hang it up; I'd rath
er kick my boots under the lounge
than place 'em in the hall; I'd rather
run the risk of spoiling a new coat
than to change it. I own right up to
being reckless and slovenly, but, ah !
me! haven't I had to pay for it ten
times over ! Now,set your foot right
down and determine to have order. It
is a trait that can be acquired. An
orderly man can make two suits of
clothes last longer and look better than
a slovenly man can do with four. He
can save an hour per day over the
man who slings things helter skelter.
He stands twice the show to get a
situation and keep it, and five times
the show to conduct a business with
profit.
An orderly man will be an accurate
man. If he is a carpenter every joint
will fit. If he is a turner his goods
will look neat. If he is a merchant
his books will show neither blots nor
errors. An orderly man is most al
ways an economical man, and always
a prudent one. I f you should ask nie
how to become rich, I should answer:
"Be orderlv—be accurate."
Now,about school. Nine boys out of
ten look upon school sometimes in the
light of a juvenile prison. They arc
more than half right. The idea seems
to lie to command a boy to-open his
mouth and swallow as fast and as
much as he can bite off, and many of
the rules and regulations arc too cap
tious to have come from sensible men.
But, hark you, ignorance means vice
—crime—degradation. The man with
out education must make his muscles
earn him a dollar a day, where brains
would earn him five. The more igno
rant the man the more naturally he
becomes a law-breaker. Education will
enable you to compete with capital. It
will make capital for you. Only,if you
were my boy I'd educate you in par
ticular and not in general. I mean by
that, that you wanted to be a law
yer J wouldn't let you fritter two or
three years in algebra,astronomy and
the dead languages. If you wanted to
become a doctor I wouldn't educate
you for a lawyer. If you had a fancy
to become a civil engineer I'd push
you in algebra instead of colonial his
tory. As the case stands in our
schools to day every boy must study
what one does. No two of them will
probably follow the same pursuit in
life, but all are thrown into the same
hopper and the mill set going.
Now about recreation. A boy who
attends school live days a week
shouldn't be set to splitting wood or
hoeing corn on the sixth. The labor
of going to school is just as hard for a
growing boy as shoving a jack-plane
is for a man. Saturday ought to be
his own day and so acknowledged.
Twenty-five years ago the father who
could't find other work for his boy
would throw down a fence and set
him to rebuilding. The idea was to
work him. No thought was given to
the anatomy of a boy. Nobody seem
ed to realize that his bones were soft,
his joints easily put out ot order, and
his muscles in such a condition that
too much work must use him up.
Find me a stiff-legged man, a bow
backed niau, a lop-shouldered man, a
man whose spinal column is out of
plumb, and I'll prove to you nine
times out of ten that he was overwork
ed as a boy.
Terms, SI.OO per Year, in Advance.
A VISIT TO DAKOTA.
Its Wonderful Rapid Settlement,
Chances for Investments, etc.
ll uiion, Dakota il/ay 31st, 1884.
To the Editor:
1 have just got back to Huron from
a tour through Central Dakota, and,
with your permission, will giye your
readers an idea of this portion of the
Territory. Central Dakota comprises
that portion of the Territory that lies
between north latitude 43° and 46°, and
is about 200 miles north and south by
possibly 300 east and west. It was first
opened to settlement by the building of
the Chicago & North-Western Railway
into it in 1880, and then coutaiued not
one settler. In 1881 a few went in, in
1882 about 10,000, and in 1883 oyer 80,-
000, so that now nearly every quarter
section of 'and in all of the organized
counties is settled. The immigration
of 1884 has been large, but its figures
are not yet obtainable. The soil is ev
erything that could he desired. It is
rich, productive, and is believed to be
lasting. In 1883 wheat through this
area averaged about 20 bushels to the
acre, many acres yielded 40 and even 50
bushels, which sold on the ground for
from 93 cents to SI.OO per bushel, most
of It being purchased for seeding in
1884 ; oats averaged 06 bushels, rye it
bout thirty, barley over 30, flaxseed a
bout 16, j>otatoes about 200, corn from
50 to 00 bushels, and every other pro
duct in proportion. A ready home
market was found for all that was of
fered. I have talked with hundreds of
the settlers, and all express themselves
as being more than pleased. Thy are
enthusiastic in their praises of the soil,
climate, air etc., and 1 have yet to find
one who is dissatisfied, or sorry that he
came. Scattered all over the Territory
are vigorous cities, towns and villages,
all of which have the air of prosperity
about them. Of course, there has been
considerable speculation in "corner
lots," and many of the places have been
"boomed" beyond their deserts, but all
seem to promise largely for the future.
Columbia, Ordvvay, Aberdeen, Blunt,
Frankfort, ltedfield, Huron, Pierre,
Fairbanks, Mitchell, Plankington,
Chamnerlain, Watertown, and many
othei places could be mentioned as ex
amples of rapid and permanent growth.
Part of these are on the North-Western
others en the Milwaukee & St. Paul,
aud still others are on both roads.
Two or three counties yet have to be
organized, and when organized will of
fer the fields for settlement, specula
tion and rapid money making. Yester
day, in traveling from Blunt to this
place, I saw a new town baing laid out.
It is eight miles west of ilighmore and
seven miles east ot flarrold, or 732
iniles from Chicago. Ilighmore is in
Ilvde county. This county has 22 con
gressional townships, each six miles
square, and consequently contains 756
sections, or about 509,000 acres, or
enougty to make over 3,000 farms of 100
acres each.
This county has been unfortunate in
having a "county seat" quarrel on its
hands, so that to-day it is unorganized
and really has no county seat. I could
not determine what side was at fault.
One side blamed the Governor and the
other the Ilighmore people; but it is
not worth while discussing the past,
and so the people seem to have deter
mined, and have also determined to
drop both the towns that have been try
ing to secure the county seat, and pret
ty unamiously have agreed to have the
county seat fixed at the town 1 saw be
ing laid out . It is to be called llolabird,
and will be a station on the railroad,
and being the county seat of Hyde
county will certainly control the larger
portion of the trade of the 3,000 farms
that are already settled in the county.
I am told that Hyde county has not a
quarter section in it. If this is true,
and 1 saw nothing to cause me to ques
tion it, one can readily see that llola
bird must have not only rapid growth,
but a prosperous future before it. I
mention this place and Hyde county
merely to show your readers how these
enterprising people get rid of their
neighborhood quarrels and start new
towns when old ones are illy placed, or
are not satisfactory to the majority. I
told that llolabird is in almost the geo
graphical centre of the county. Ido
not know and did not learn who owns
the town site, how the lots are to be
sold, their prices, or how they are to be
purchased,as I hayer.o interest in those
questions,for lam neither a land or lot
boycr or seller, and am merely an inter
ested looker-on. It is clear to me,how
ever, that not only llolabird, but every
other new county seat must have car
penters, plasterers, stone and brick ma
sons, blacksmiths, merchants and deal
ers in everything the farmers wish to
buy, and must offer inducements to the
young men of the older States that they
can not procure at home.
I am too old to "pull up" and come
here to settle, but hundreds ot your
readers are not', and if they must leave
their old homes, I can assure them they
can not "go amiss" if they go to Cen
tral Dakota. They and all should re
member that gold is not picked up in
the streets, and that farms are not to
be had for the asking ; but they may be
certain that they can get gold for their
NO. 28.
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labor and a farm for one-tenth ,nay,one
twentieth, of the labor that .one will
cost east of Chicago. The grain crops
in Central Dakota look splendidly at
this time. Wheat, oats, barley and rye
were sown in February and March,and
are now from eight to fifteen inches
high, stand thick and strong on the
ground, and have an excellent and
healthy look. Corn is above ground,
but is too small yet to warrant one in
even guessing what the crop may be.
Respectfully yours,
JOHN SHERMAN.
The Press.
How a Congressman Fooled a
Literary Society.
" Ben Hardin was a brilliant fellow,
and he had a strong senso of humor/'
says a Washington letter to the Cleve
land Leader. When he was elected to
Congress in 1815 he had already served
several terms in the Kentucky legisla
ture and was noted throughout the
State as a lawyer. He started, howev
er, for Washington, dressed in .the
rough clothing of a frontier State, and
he wore the slouch hat and long buff
coat of the West. As he was passing
through Virginia, two young, smart
looking fellows overtoos him and fell
into conversation with him.' HaMln at
their first words saw that they took bim
for a greenhorn, and they put ou such
manners and ascent as to confirm their
illusion. The meeting took place with
in a few miles of the town where they
were to stop for the night. In the
course ot the conversation the young
bloods told him there was to be a liter
ary society meeting that night,and that
it he would attend he might hear some
fine speaking, and at this point one of
them, slyly winked to the other, said
"And perhaps, stranger, you will join
in the debate yourself ?"
"I don't know,'' replied Hartiiu. "I
have spoken some in old Kentucky.
What moight your question be
The question was not new to bim. It
was one of the leading ones of the day
—a political issue upon which he was
thoroughly posted. As old Ben Hardin
heard it,however,he shook his head and
said: "Boys, you will hevto excuse me
o>; thet. I ain't up ou thet subject.
Xow.if it was whether pursuit was bet
ter than possession, or some of our old
subjects, I allow I'd tackle it. But a
bout this yere politics I don't know."
After much persuasion, however, he
promised the joung men that he would
attend aud he "would say suthin' any
how." The party separated at the ho
tel, and the young fellows went off
laughing at the fun they expected to
have that night.They told their friends,
and in a short time the whole town
knew of the green Kentuckian's arrival
and when the literary society opened
every seat was filled. The exercises
went off quietly until the debate com
menced, when every one looked at Har
din. He sat quietly until the close. The
two young fellows made their speeches,
and very fair ones, too. As the second
one closed and Mr. Hardiu arose, each
one in the audience nudged his neigh
bor, and every face was ready to smile.
Their expressions changed/however, as
old Ben took up the subject and treated
it most eloquently. lie tore ;to pieces
the speeches of the young fellows who
had tried to play the tricks on him, aud
as lie was finishing the two were so
bored that they g o7 up ancl left. H> re
ferred to them as they went, and closed
after an eloquent peroration by telling
the society that he was a Kentucky
member of Congress on his way to
Wasbington. At this the society gath
ered around him and wanted to shake
his hand. He chatted with them for a
while, and the remainder of his yisit
was an ovation. The whole town came
out to the hotel the next day to see
him off, and the smart young fellows
were the laughing stock of all.
A few Answers.
'What is a sage V
'A sage, my son, is a man who
knows exactly when to buy and sell
stocks. We bury about a dozen per
month in this country, but the supply
still equals the demand.' .
'What is a successful financier V
'Why, a man who scoops $3,000,-
000 out of the bank he runs and drops
the sugar in Wall street.'
'What is a philosopher V
'He is a chap who loses his wife's
money in buying silver stocfc, but in
creases his own by buying a deal in
pork. 1
What is a financial prophet V
'He is a gentleman who states to kn
interviewer on Wednesday that the
times are prosperous and business sol
id, and on Thursday fails for seven or
eight million dollars'
Five of the six murderers hanged
on a recent Friday in this country de
clared that rum bad led tbem into
, crime.